Drainage Improvements

Published: Wednesday, October 20, 1999

The plan recently approved by the City Council is a better plan and will help most areas near South Loop 289.

The engineering staff is to be complimented on a positive approach along with the interim procedure which has worked well in pumping down Casey and Kmart lakes in order to provide capacity for receiving and storing heavy drainage.

It has been our opinion that special interest pressure to use funds for their pet projects has kept previous councils from setting up positive drainage programs before. This possibly was what happened over the last century but something may have changed for the better. Lubbock is becoming a city instead of a town.

We still have hateful, selfish people who do not want a good drainage system, no matter what it costs. These same people don't complain about a gas rate increase which is more than double the stormwater fee, but have a preformed idea that the streets will take care of the drainage. Some of these people or their ancestors are the ones who built and/or financed the impervious (paved and roof) runoff areas that have caused most of the recent problems.